Successful emergency splenectomy during pregnancy in a patient with life-threatening idiopathic thrombocytopenia. Case report

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 703-706

  Stiemer, Beate ^a   Opri, Firu ^a   Senger, Daniela ^a   Kreuser, Ernst Dietrich ^a   Berdel, Wolfgang ^a   Hopp, Helmut ^a   Sanft, Karsten ^a   Bauer, Karl ^a   Weitzel, Hans Karl ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Idiopathic thrombocytopenia; Outcome; Pregnancy; Pulmonary bleeding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0030465216     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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